Every year, parks in London alone are doused in one million gallons of
dog urine.
The germs present in human faeces can pass through up to ten layers of
toilet paper.
The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.
Contrary to popular belief, if you swallow chewing gum it does not
stay in the gut. Usually it will pass through the system and is
excreted without incident. However, several cases have been reported
where the gum has stuck in the rectum, causing the unfortunate
sufferer to excrete long sticky trails of gum, like a pink spider's
web.
Several well-documented instances have been reported of extremely
obese people flushing aircraft toilets whilst still sitting on them.
The vacuum action of these toilets sucked the rectum inside out.
It is possible to cough your guts up.
If your body's natural defences failed, the bacteria in your gut would
consume you within 48 hours, literally eating you from the inside out.
What is one of the most difficult items for sewage works to handle, as
it is insoluble, yet fine enough to pass through most filtration
systems? (Every month Thames Water removes over a ton of this
substance from its water treatment plants, whereupon it is taken away
to a landfill site and buried.) You guessed it - pubic hair.
Parasites count for 0.01% of your body weight.
Henry II was murdered by his homosexual lover, who pushed a red-hot
poker 0.5 metres up his rectum.
The longest recorded tapeworm found in the human body was 33 *metres*
in length.
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